Improvement in devices for oiling fly-nets, harness



L. S. KURTZ. Device forOiling Fly-Nets, Harness, &0.

No. 222,827. Patented Dec. 23, I879.

NJUETS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER. WASNlN GYDN. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

LUTHER S. KURTZ, NEAR PEQUEA I. 0., ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS OF HIS RIGHT TO HERVEY SHIMP AND JOHN R. WILSON, OF PEQUEA, PA.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICES FOR OlLlNG FLY-NETS, HARNESS, dc.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,827, dated December 23, 1879; application filed September 29, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,'LU1HER S. KURTZ, near Pequea P. 0., in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Devices for OilingFly-Nets, Harness, 850., of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to devise a means for saturating or oiling leather fly-nets, lines, harness, &c., more thoroughly without soiling the floor or wasting of oil, as hereinafter fully described.

The accompanying drawings, with the letters of reference marked thereon, and a brief explanation will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 a vertical section, to show the interior of the drip-box and funnel.

Fig. 1 shows a square box, E, with a door, D, on one side, hinged to a raised foot-flange, e, fastened by a clasp, d. This box has a central raised tube, 0, to receive the tube or nozzle of a funnel, A. A loose cross-piece, B, sits across the funnel at, say, half-way down, for an open shelf or support for draining articles greased or oiled. This funnel A has a strainer, a, above its discharge-spout. Within the outer box, IE, sits another box or vessel, F, open at the top, and provided centrally in the bottom with a fixed cylindrical tube, G, to receive the inner funnel, H, with a thimblecover, I, over its nozzle.

Oiling numerous leather-made fly-nets, so

much is use by farmers, is always a tedious and unpleasant labor, and with the greatest care much oil is wasted and many points not reached in the ordinary way of oiling. This applies equally well to other articles of barness that require oiling to keep them pliant.

The articles are packed into the open mouth of the funnel A, and the oil poured all over the lot. The oil not absorbed by the leather is drained through the strainer a and into the capped funnel H, or suifered to enter the inner box or vessel, F. The oil thus collected can be used again and again as the articles are turned and subjected to its action until the oil finds its way into all the crevices under the laps and buckles and exposed portions of the leather. The draining-frame or cross B is used, and when the free oil is all drained oil the leather articles may be wiped off with a woolen cloth or the like, and the articles will be found more thoroughly oiled and at a great saving of time and oil, and also less disagreeable in handling.

1 show a square box and side door in Fig. 1; also, in Fig. 2, a side door, D, is shown; but the vessels may be cylindrical,if preferred, and the top D D, Fig.2, with its central open pipe, 0, may set down like a lid upon the outer vessel, E, which I deem substantially the same. The size may be so as to adapt it to the object it is designed to accomplish. The outer vessel may be of wood, and the upper or outer funnel or hopper, A, of sheet-iron or heavy tin or zinc galvanized plates.

It is the opinion that this invention or device for oiling is highly desirable, and in the saving of oil would soon pay the trifling cost.

I am not aware that any combined vessels, substantially as herein set forth, were ever before known or used for the purpose specified. Therefore,

What I claim as my invention is- As a new article of manufacture, a device for oiling harness, consisting of the conic vessel A, provided with a strainer, the case E, drawer or box F, socket G, and capped funnel H, substantially-as described.

LUTHER S. KURTZ.

Witnesses W. B. WILEY, JACOB STAUFFER. 

